Because Edwin Black wrote a book about it right around the time Silicon Valley kept lecturing people how it could do no wrong and would save the world.
Also because someone could have written a similar book about how IBM helped Stalin and the Communists but most anti-communists don't want to rehash old problems that would only hurt one of their best friends and best returning stocks.
The list is shocking for me, and an even more shocking thought is that probably most of these startups are useless today. Google alone can now provide maybe more half of the technologies these startups tried to achieve in the 2000s.
Also because someone could have written a similar book about how IBM helped Stalin and the Communists but most anti-communists don't want to rehash old problems that would only hurt one of their best friends and best returning stocks.